Horse Racing News
Racing Victoria announces timetables for 10-race cards
Racing Victoria has officially confirmed that Saturday’s new 10-race cards will only extend the race day by 20 minutes. Last month, Racing Victoria had announced its plans to trial an extension to the Saturday metropolitan race day, expanding the meetings from nine to 10 races during the 2023/24 racing season....
Ken Keys sets sights on Vain Stakes at Caulfield
Ken Keys would have liked to have given Scheelite more time in the spelling paddock, but the Cranbourne trainer is happy with the way the most exciting member of his stable is tracking as his return to racing nears. The unbeaten colt will trial at Cranbourne on August 7 ahead of...
Lindsay Park announce Will Hayes to join brothers
The Hayes family will have another member operate under the Lindsay Park banner from the start of the 2023/24 racing season with Will Hayes to join his brothers in a training partnership. Lindsay Park announced the appointment on Monday morning with the 28-year-old will join his twin JD and their older...
Right You Are kicks off Caulfield Cup prep
Right You Are has kicked off his Caulfield Cup program with a jump-out at Cranbourne with the effort surprising one of his co-trainers. The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained galloper is assured of a start in the Group 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m) in October, courtesy of his win in the Listed Mornington...
Casterton hit out set to shape Flying Mascot’s spring
A jump-out at Casterton will determine whether Flying Mascot will have the addition of blinkers when she has her next race start at Flemington. Trainer Tom Dabernig was disheartened with Flying Mascot’s first-up performance in the Group 3 Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield on July 8 and has called for a...
Golden Slipper winner Fireburn puts spring in trainer’s step
Having put the disappointment of Fireburn’s controversial Queensland Oaks scratching behind him, Gary Portelli is looking to the spring with renewed enthusiasm. The filly was a short-priced favourite for the Oaks after sweeping to victory in The Roses, but two days out from her grand final, Queensland Racing Integrity Commission veterinarians ordered...
Zac Lloyd edges ahead in premiership battle
Zac Lloyd has shot to the front in the race for the Sydney apprentices’ title, booting home a trio of winners at Rosehill to overtake rival Dylan Gibbons with just two meetings of the season remaining. Gibbons went into Saturday’s 10-race card with a two-win lead but after two of his mounts were...
Ingratiating shows a touch of class in Bletchingly Stakes 2023
Class rose to the top in Melbourne’s final Stakes race of the 2022-23 season with Godolphin galloper Ingratiating scoring at Caulfield. Showing considerable improvement from his first-up in the Group 3 Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield a fortnight earlier, Ingratiating stamped his authority in the straight. Ridden by Blake Shinn, Ingratiating ($4) scored...
Barbie’s Fox proves a Winter queen
Zac Lloyd has played a starring role at the penultimate Sydney Saturday meeting of the season, taking out the feature race on Victorian Barbie’s Fox as part of a winning treble that has vaulted him to the lead in the apprentices’ premiership. The young rider was relieved to get the verdict...
Ouroboros lands breakthrough win at Caulfield
Ourbooros may have saved himself from a gelding operation with his hard-fought win at Caulfield. The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained two-year-old landed his first win at career start number four when successful in the Quayclean Handicap (1200m) on Saturday. Price spoke pre-race of the possibility of sending Ouroboros to be gelded if again beaten on...